Path: utzoo!dciem!array!colin
From: colin@array.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: What is the empty statement?
Message-ID: <105@array.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 90 00:05:49 GMT
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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why doesn't

while(expr);

work?  Isn't

;

a simple statement?  I don't think it's a compound statement or a declaration.
-- 
	-Colin